I was actually surprised by this post. I had seen the claims of missing data some time ago, before this latest media wrangle. I had not mentioned it in any of

I was actually surprised by this post. I had seen the claims of missing data some time ago, before this latest media wrangle. I had not mentioned it in any of the comments on the most recent bunch of posts, either at esr's site, HN, OB, or any of the other sites weighing in on the matter, because I had, apparently wrongly, assumed everyone else already knew about the missing base data.